{"product_id":"black-communist-in-the-freedom-struggle-the-life-of-harry-haywood-paperback-softback-9780816679065","title":"Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle; The Life of Harry Haywood (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816679065","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlack Communist in the Freedom Struggle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Life of Harry Haywood\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHarry Haywood (Author), Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816679065\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 May 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.532 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Presents Haywood in motion and thought-the revolutionary, theoretician, strategist, and above all, the man wrestling with his times.\" -Robin D. G. Kelley, author of \u003ci\u003eThelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMustering out of the U.S. army in 1919, Harry Haywood stepped into a battle that was to last the rest of his life. Within months, he found himself in the middle of one of the bloodiest race riots in U.S. history and realized that he’d been fighting the wrong war-the real enemy was right here at home. This book is Haywood’s eloquent account of coming of age as a black man in twentieth-century America and of his political awakening in the Communist Party. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor all its cultural and historical interest, Harry Haywood’s story is also noteworthy for its considerable narrative drama. The son of parents born into slavery, Haywood tells how he grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, found his first job as a shoeshine boy in Minneapolis, then went on to work as a waiter on trains and in restaurants in Chicago. After fighting in France during the war, he studied how to make revolutions in Moscow during the 1920s, led the Communist Party’s move into the Deep South in 1931, helped to organize the campaign to free the Scottsboro Boys, worked with the Sharecroppers’ Union, supported protests in Chicago against Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia, fought with the International Brigades in Spain, served in the Merchant Marines during World War II, and continued to fight for the right of self-determination for the Afro-American nation in the United States until his death in 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of his classic autobiography, \u003ci\u003eBlack Bolshevik,\u003c\/i\u003e introduces American readers to the little-known story of a brilliant thinker, writer, and activist whose life encapsulates the struggle for freedom against all odds of the New Negro generation that came of age during and after World War I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroductionGwendolyn Midlo Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e1.A Child of Slaves\u003cbr\u003e2.A Black Regiment in World War I\u003cbr\u003e3.On to France\u003cbr\u003e4.Searching for Answers\u003cbr\u003e5.An Organization of Revolutionaries\u003cbr\u003e6.A Student in Moscow\u003cbr\u003e7.Self-Determination: The Fight for a Correct Line\u003cbr\u003e8.Return to the Homefront: White Chauvinism Under Fire\u003cbr\u003e9.Reunion in Moscow\u003cbr\u003e10.Sharecroppers with Guns: Organizing the Black Belt\u003cbr\u003e11.Chicago: Against War and Fascism\u003cbr\u003e12.The Spanish Civil War: A Call to Arms\u003cbr\u003e13.World War II and the Merchant Marines\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520772796696,"sku":"9780816679065","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/black-communist-in-the-freedom-struggle-the-life-of-harry-haywood-paperback-softback-9780816679065","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}